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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CMP Media's Software
Development magazine editorial team is pleased to announce the winners of the
third annual Readers' Choice Awards. The winners were announced at the SD Best
Practices conference in Boston to a crowd of nearly 1,000.

This year new categories included Best Employer, Best Scripting Language
and Best GUIs.

"We're always looking for ways to recognize the best products and vendors
in software development; therefore, we've evolved the Readers' Choice Awards
program to look at the different aspects of the development process," noted
Software Development magazine Technical Editor Rosalyn Lum. "Last year, the
Fortune 500 dominated the winner's list, but this year we're also recognizing
lesser-known products from small to medium-sized companies, and we're very
pleased with the results."

Voting is controlled by sending an invitation to Software Development
readers containing a personal identification number ensuring that votes made
using a duplicate PIN can be removed; all suspect votes were eliminated from
the data pool. Also, the editors tracked voters' Internet domains and found no
correlation between corporate domains (such as Oracle.com) and products from
the same company.

"Popularity contests are tricky to manage, but we think that in our third
year of the Software Development Readers' Choice Awards, we've achieved a
balance. The trick is to recognize not only ubiquity, but quality and customer
loyalty. The wider variety of winners this year shows that, despite the
dominance of a handful of companies with vast installed bases, it's possible
for newer and smaller concerns to shine as well," said Editor in Chief of
Software Development magazine Alexandra Weber Morales. The 2005 Software Development magazine Readers' Choice Awards winners
are: Best Employer (Overall)

Winner: Google

Runners-up:

Amazon.com

IBM

Sun Microsystems Best Employer (Small to Medium-Sized Business)

Winner: McAfee

Runners-up:

MKS

SAS

Sybase Best GUI (Overall)

Winner: Visual Studio (Microsoft)

Runners-up:

Delphi (Borland)

Eclipse Platform (Eclipse Foundation)

Mac OS X Tiger (Apple) Best GUI (Small to Medium-Sized Business)

Winner: Delphi (Borland)

Runners-up:

Eclipse Platform (Eclipse Foundation)

IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)

Qt (Trolltech) Best Open Source Tool

Winner: Eclipse (Eclipse Foundation)

Runners-up:

GCC (Free Software Foundation)

Perl (Larry Wall)

Tomcat (Apache Software Foundation) Best Scripting Language

Winner: Perl (Larry Wall)

Runners-up:

Python (Guido van Rossum)

PHP (PHP)

Ruby (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Best Technical Support

Winner: developerWorks (IBM)

Runners-up:

Apple (Apple)

IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)

Oracle Database (Oracle) Best Technical Support (Small to Medium-Sized Business)

GNU Emacs (Free Software Foundation) More information on Software Development magazine and the Readers' Choice
Awards is available at http://www.sdmagazine.com. About Software Development magazine

Software Development is the leading magazine for software development
managers: the definitive source to empower those who implement and manage
teams, technologies, practices and tools integral to successful development
projects. Software Development is a monthly publication reaching over 100,000
subscribers. Software Development readers, are trailblazing managers who care
passionately about enlivening and expediting the task of delivering successful
software on time and under budget. About CMP Media LLC

CMP Media (http://www.cmp.com) is the leading integrated media solutions company
providing "broad and deep" access to the entire technology spectrum -- the
builders, sellers and buyers of technology worldwide. The company's
comprehensive database of technology decision makers enables marketers to
reach targeted audiences throughout the purchase process with publications,
web offerings, face-to-face events, consulting and other marketing services
that deliver actionable results.